Dell Inspiron 1100 Windows upgrade

Hi. Another 'newbie' at this forum thing but need help. I have owned an Inspiron 1100 for may years running XP without any problem. I decided, after about 8 months to do another long overdue Windows update. (I have a valid XP OS loaded) The updates downloaded succesfully (took awhile) but now I suddenly only have a blank desktop background without any icons or task bars etc. I can use Ctl-alt-del and run windows explorer or other programs from the 'run' filed but obviously this is a problem. Everything is still on the laptop so there should be no reason to lose it. I dont know what update program caused this or why. Can anybody help? This would be much appriciated. Trevor

Hi Chuck 2Thanks for your response but I cannot go to Start. As mentioned I have a completely blank desktop. This is my problem - trying to get my desktop to display when I switch on my laptop.Regards Trevor

No, I don't get my Start menu back. All I get is a the background image I setup for my desktop. And absolutely nothing else. I dont even get a cursor. The only thing I can do is to use Ctl-alt-del. What I am hoping for is to get whatever application that controls the desktop working again so that when I switch on my laptop it looks and behaves as a normal computer running XP

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